I tried it with three of my school's AP BSSID's, and I'm surprised that all three were accurate to the actual building. I thought the closest anyone could get was by geotracking our IP address, which leads them to a nearby town. But I had no idea that BSSID's could be much, much more precise.
Then 54% are ignorant about the operations of a modern commercial airliner.
The onboard computer systems already control the mechanical operation of the flaps, the rudder, ailerons, the stabalizers, the landing gear, the ventilation, hell, pretty much everything. A pilot's primary responsibility is managing and executing the decision-making. Yes, they can take manual control, but why, when the computer is much faster, more accurate, and more efficient? Just watch this video and hear a commercial pilot talk about how autopilot alone works. All the pilot does is input all the data into the autopilot, setting the course heading, the speed, and the altitude, and autopilot does the rest.
Pilot operations of commercial aircraft are very procedural, and it can very easily be converted into an algorithm managed by a computer. At the very least, it would not surprise me if, in the next 20 years, the FAA determines it's safe for computer automation to reduce the number of required pilots in an airplane from two to one.
My vote would go for "If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion," but unfortunately it's far more than 60 characters long. (For those unfamiliar with the context, read the complete passage here.
I suppose then, my recommendation is: "Voyager, the first step. Flying beyond it shall be the next."
In this video by Wendover Productions on why the Concorde failed, they mention the economics of commercial flight. Sonic booms aren't the problem. Long story short, flying time doesn't matter as much as ticket revenue and fuel cost. If an airplane consumes more fuel flying faster than the speed of sound than slower, and people aren't willing to pay for the increase in cost, then airlines won't fly faster.
Call the police to report the sexual harassment AND file a lawsuit.
Say someone did. These are only allegations made against the employer. Nothing is proof of fact.
Then when it comes to the lawsuit, corporate will bring its high-priced lawyers who are paid to know everything about corporate law. Up against that Goliath, most everyone chooses to settle. And in that settlement agreement? A non-disclosure clause.
So when the New York Times tries to write a story about what happened, all they can say was "According to public records, an allegation was made against the employer. A settlement was reached regarding the allegation. Neither side is commenting on the matter."
I also started posting here in '99. And in the year 2000, the conversation was a whole lot more complicated than just "This guy is now POTUS." Bush v Gore, remember? Slashdot hadthree postings just that evening, with a stream of follow-ups before we finally got a "This guy is now POTUS" announcement three weeks later.
But the whole while, I found the ongoing discussions very diverse and informative.
Living in a foreign country does not exempt any citizen from paying taxes on stocks, business profits, or revenue generated within their home nation. Say you're a Canadian citizen who owns a McDonalds franchise in Canada. If you move to the United States, you still have to pay the Canadian government for the profits from your franchise in Canada. You just don't have to pay them for the franchise you own in the United States. The United States is the only country that taxes its citizens for income earned from living and working in another country.
Even that being said, I lived and worked as a US citizen abroad for a year. US Citizens still don't have to pay taxes on the first $85,000 they earn abroad, which is a pretty generous amount.
Graduated in '03. Took out both Stafford loans and private loans to pay for college. My private loans were sold once, and my Stafford loans were sold twice. Paid it all off completely, the private loans five years ago and the Stafford loans this year, but it seemed silly to me at the time how frequently my debt was being tossed around between lenders.
Personally, I'm concerned, because we've seen this before. I believe financial institutions are packaging student loan debts into asset-backed securities and selling them to the highest bidder. To the buyer, it's no longer a set of loans, but a financial instrument of cash flow. Buy a packaged set of loans for x dollars promising a cash flow of y dollars over z years. We saw the same thing happen with home loans during the 2008 recession.
I know someone who was the victim of a purse snatch. Purse found in a back alley just a few blocks away, and all the perp took was cash. I also know a family member who had his debit card stolen and about $1,200 of purchases racked up on it in 24 hours. (Yes, he only had $50 in liability, but he said the time spent on jumping through every phone call and piece of paperwork was a pain.) Your money is just as much at risk in either scenario.
As for me, I hardly ever carry cash. Not because I'm afraid to, but because it's a lifestyle choice. If I have cash in my pocket, I'm far more likely to spend it, as well as spend it on unnecessary things, and not keep track of how much I have left. Though, I know many who say the same about debit cards.
Newspapers still provide an important and valuable service to our society. They should be paid for it. Companies like Google and Facebook shouldn't be harvesting content for free. Setup a licensing deal with Google, Facebook, and any other meta-news distributors. Newspapers get money, and they continue to provide their services.
They should realize by now that the paradigm has shifted. People are consuming news content in new ways, and the best thing to do is adapt. Music's new distribution is streaming. News should be the same.
If I threw [you] into an M.R.I. machine right now... I can tell you what words you're about to say, what images are in your head. I can tell you what music you're thinking of. That's today, and I'm talking about just shrinking that down
So, it currently takes a huge freakin' MRI to just be able to read the brain's thoughts*. And to the best of my knowledge, no one has figured out a way of inputting a thought into the brain electronically. And she thinks she can accomplish both with a device the size of a cap in eight years? Good luck with that.
* Even "Reading the brain's thoughts" is quite a stretch from what an MRI actually does. We just see on a screen what parts of the brain light up like a Christmas tree, then interpret what the brain is doing based on our current mapping of brain-functions. But, if you were to "think" the message, "Please buy diapers on your way home from work today," an MRI today at best will show that your prefrontal cortex lights up, indicating you are task-managing, as well as your amygdala, indicating a sense of emotional frustration. Other areas will light up as well, but whether these areas mean diapers, work, cheese, rutabagas, or who knows what is still anybody's guess.
William Shockley and the Traitorous Eight, that's what happened.
The article alludes to this: William Shockley, one of those brilliant Nobel laureates who invented the transistor, moved to California to open his lab in Mountain View, the current home of Google. His employees also left to found their own companies.
In a nutshell, Silicon Valley gave birth to this innovation, because New Jersey and Bell Labs demanded loyalty to the company. If the company didn't agree with your ideas, then they wanted those ideas tossed into the garbage can so that you had time to work on their ideas. Shockley thought his ideas were better, so he went out to California to develop them (where New Jersey's anti-competitive laws didn't apply), and brought the Traitorous Eight with him. And then the Traitorous Eight left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor. And so on...
I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.
Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?
Comment to submitter... next time, please find an article that provides a much better summary without all the gratuitous clickbait links, please. Like this one, or this one.
Anyways, in short, the doc makes an OAuth request for access to the user's e-mail and contacts. And since every user blindly accepts permissions such as these whenever they add an app to their phone, we had a lot of users at our district click "Accept".
Mod points to anyone who can parse the source code and summarize what it does, besides mass-email everyone in the contact list a copy of itself.
Installing fiber isn't that expensive. I live in a semi-rural area several miles outside of the nearest small town, and 25 miles from the nearest big town, ~50 miles from a city, and ~100 miles from a major metro area. And I have three fiber pedestals near my house, from two different cable companies.
Nice anecdote. By the way, have you ever trenched fiber for a local telecom? It's not cheap. Two minutes of Google searching gave me this neat data. A couple installs in Florida ran about $10,000 per mile back in 2013. Let's use that as a base cost. Wikipedia then tells me that Google needed 4,000 miles of fiber to setup in San Antonio. So, $40 million dollars, just for one city. And if there already was one or two other providers there offering services, able to price-cut their services to maintain their subscriber base, that would give me even less reason to start breaking ground.
I've spoken with two different telecoms about their fiber install over the last five years. Both of them say that there's a substantial initial investment, just to develop a core community of subscribers, which then provides the profits necessary to branch out into neighboring territories, especially in rural areas. (Both teleco's said that rural areas don't turn a profit. The urban areas subsidize the costs.)
1) Levees and flood protections prevent silt from the Mississippi from depositing into the delta to maintain it, and 2) Oil drilling required dredging up the delta to permit pipelines and shipping lanes, destroying wetlands that help capture and build-up the silt.
As a technology director for a public K-12 school, I'm very concerned about what I'm reading in the headline. But the "article" is an extremely biased report, citing just as equally biased an article, and neither article really gives me a clue as to what's going on here.
So, let's start at the source: Here is the actual FCC draft order specific to this change. Now, in the course of working on and completing E-Rate filings with the USAC to receive reimbursement for internet and network services for our school district, I've read a few 60-70 page FCC reports before. They're not fun, but they're necessary. That being said, I'm about 20 pages in, and already I'm disturbed. Here's why:
FCC reports that I've read in the past are boring, dry reads, but at least they're factual and unbiased. Not so with this one. Three sentences in, and we get this: "The FCC has historically subjected the provision of business data services by incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to price regulations." And the spin continues..."eases the regulatory burdens"; "spur entry, innovation and competition in the vibrant business data services market"; "competition is robust and vigorous in the markets." And this is still just the first page. The draft order is littered with biased political spin, something that has not been present in my reading of previous FCC draft orders. Because of this, I can't even depend on a government document to give me an unbiased report of the rationale behind the decision, nor can I depend on it to help me determine what the consequences of the decision will be. So, I'll have to create my own... here goes.
Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) price regulations have been there historically specifically to protect subscribers from LECs that had monopoly or near-monopoly controls over their service regions. Most regions throughout the United States historically were not served by competitive broadband providers. Recently, this has begun to change, where some communities now have competitive service providers come in, giving subscribers a choice. The FCC began to look into this issue back in 2012, before Trump. According to the report, "In December 2012, the Commission released the Data Collection Order FNPRM, to collect data, analyze how competition, “whether actual or potential, affects prices, controlling for all other factors that affect prices,” and “determine what barriers inhibit investment and delay competition, including regulatory barriers." By not controlling pricing, the FCC claims in its report that LECs will no longer be limited entry into a potential market, where capped rates would not allow for a sufficient recovery of the investment necessary to build into a new market area.
But, here's the flaw in their reasoning: trenching fiber costs a lot of money. A lot. If service provider A already has fiber, service provider B is not going to install fiber if it does not believe that it can earn back their investment in a reasonable amount of time. Even if prices are artificially inflated by provider A, just because they can, if provider B tries to compete and trenches their own fiber network, both A and B know that A can lower its rates to a competitive level to drive out provider B. So, B has no incentive to trench, leaving A with the monopoly.
The easiest solution: make internet a utility. It's silly to think that it's a smart idea to run multiple fiber lines to a building. (I should know; our school has two of them, and both are dark.) It would be just as silly to have multiple electric taps, or multiple water pipes. But, that's not happening anytime
I don't own an NES classic, but I grew up playing these games, and I love them dearly. Playing them periodically is a joy, both for myself and my young son. Shall I...
A) Enjoy my favorite NES games illegally on a PC emulator?
or
B) Enjoy my favorite NES games legally on an NES Classic Edition?
When I was in college between '99 and '03, the "jocks dorm" as it was called (next to the football field, kitty-corner from the athletic center, and never a morning without empty bottles in the dumpster) got its cable shut off by the police back in 2001. The local cable company knew there were more watchers than subscribers, and with the cooperation of the college, went room-to-room to see how many illegal splices there were. For what I believe was 112 rooms with cable, only 8 had paid subscriptions.
And now 34% have paid subscriptions to Netflix? They should consider themselves lucky.
How much after the first year, Axon? It's a good strategy...offer the cameras for free, then making departments dependent on Evidence.com for cloud storage. (Because what business would give away cameras for free that could work with alternative cloud services, or local department servers?)
That makes as much sense as departments agreeing with GM to get free Impala cruisers up front, but also agreeing to buy all gasoline from Chevy at $10 / gallon.
When I first started to buy SSD's for my school, I tried to do some research and quickly became confused about the differences between TLC, MLC, and SLC. I found various sites like this one that gave a good overview, but I didn't find very many that really analyzed the performance differences.
I settled on the Kingston V300 series of disks, an MLC unit that seemed to get decent reviews. It's been treating us well, but I always wonder whether the MLC was worth the extra money over the UV400, a slightly cheaper TLC variant.
Has anyone ever used both MLC and TLC drives and care to comment about whether the differences in performance justify the cost?
Slashdot Mirror
Cryptocurrencies skirt all that and instead rely on their supposedly unhackable technology to guarantee value.
Is it unhackable?
Or, rather, is it less hackable than the status quo?
And, is its value guaranteed? We at least have FDIC in the United States, but what happens to BitCoin if the system collapses?
He's like a car salesman that starts by showing you the cup holders.
He promises us the Hyperloop, then shows us the inside of its cabin.
He promises human flight to the ISS, then shows us the space, oh wait, I mean flight suit, that will be worn by travelers.
When will he show us what he promised to show us?
Seriously, go ahead and try it yourself: plug your Wi-Fi router's BSSID MAC address into this website...
Not sure which website the submitter was aiming for, but since the hyperlink is missing, here's one website option to try.
I tried it with three of my school's AP BSSID's, and I'm surprised that all three were accurate to the actual building. I thought the closest anyone could get was by geotracking our IP address, which leads them to a nearby town. But I had no idea that BSSID's could be much, much more precise.
Then 54% are ignorant about the operations of a modern commercial airliner.
The onboard computer systems already control the mechanical operation of the flaps, the rudder, ailerons, the stabalizers, the landing gear, the ventilation, hell, pretty much everything. A pilot's primary responsibility is managing and executing the decision-making. Yes, they can take manual control, but why, when the computer is much faster, more accurate, and more efficient? Just watch this video and hear a commercial pilot talk about how autopilot alone works. All the pilot does is input all the data into the autopilot, setting the course heading, the speed, and the altitude, and autopilot does the rest.
Pilot operations of commercial aircraft are very procedural, and it can very easily be converted into an algorithm managed by a computer. At the very least, it would not surprise me if, in the next 20 years, the FAA determines it's safe for computer automation to reduce the number of required pilots in an airplane from two to one.
My vote would go for "If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion," but unfortunately it's far more than 60 characters long. (For those unfamiliar with the context, read the complete passage here.
I suppose then, my recommendation is: "Voyager, the first step. Flying beyond it shall be the next."
In this video by Wendover Productions on why the Concorde failed, they mention the economics of commercial flight. Sonic booms aren't the problem. Long story short, flying time doesn't matter as much as ticket revenue and fuel cost. If an airplane consumes more fuel flying faster than the speed of sound than slower, and people aren't willing to pay for the increase in cost, then airlines won't fly faster.
We need to build our own autonomous weapons systems in order to defend ourselves from other nations attacking with autonomous weapons systems.
Right?
Call the police to report the sexual harassment AND file a lawsuit.
Say someone did. These are only allegations made against the employer. Nothing is proof of fact.
Then when it comes to the lawsuit, corporate will bring its high-priced lawyers who are paid to know everything about corporate law. Up against that Goliath, most everyone chooses to settle. And in that settlement agreement? A non-disclosure clause.
So when the New York Times tries to write a story about what happened, all they can say was "According to public records, an allegation was made against the employer. A settlement was reached regarding the allegation. Neither side is commenting on the matter."
I also started posting here in '99. And in the year 2000, the conversation was a whole lot more complicated than just "This guy is now POTUS." Bush v Gore, remember? Slashdot had three postings just that evening, with a stream of follow-ups before we finally got a "This guy is now POTUS" announcement three weeks later.
But the whole while, I found the ongoing discussions very diverse and informative.
Living in a foreign country does not exempt any citizen from paying taxes on stocks, business profits, or revenue generated within their home nation. Say you're a Canadian citizen who owns a McDonalds franchise in Canada. If you move to the United States, you still have to pay the Canadian government for the profits from your franchise in Canada. You just don't have to pay them for the franchise you own in the United States. The United States is the only country that taxes its citizens for income earned from living and working in another country.
Even that being said, I lived and worked as a US citizen abroad for a year. US Citizens still don't have to pay taxes on the first $85,000 they earn abroad, which is a pretty generous amount.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Graduated in '03. Took out both Stafford loans and private loans to pay for college. My private loans were sold once, and my Stafford loans were sold twice. Paid it all off completely, the private loans five years ago and the Stafford loans this year, but it seemed silly to me at the time how frequently my debt was being tossed around between lenders.
Personally, I'm concerned, because we've seen this before. I believe financial institutions are packaging student loan debts into asset-backed securities and selling them to the highest bidder. To the buyer, it's no longer a set of loans, but a financial instrument of cash flow. Buy a packaged set of loans for x dollars promising a cash flow of y dollars over z years. We saw the same thing happen with home loans during the 2008 recession.
I know someone who was the victim of a purse snatch. Purse found in a back alley just a few blocks away, and all the perp took was cash. I also know a family member who had his debit card stolen and about $1,200 of purchases racked up on it in 24 hours. (Yes, he only had $50 in liability, but he said the time spent on jumping through every phone call and piece of paperwork was a pain.) Your money is just as much at risk in either scenario.
As for me, I hardly ever carry cash. Not because I'm afraid to, but because it's a lifestyle choice. If I have cash in my pocket, I'm far more likely to spend it, as well as spend it on unnecessary things, and not keep track of how much I have left. Though, I know many who say the same about debit cards.
So, I guess, to each their own.
Newspapers still provide an important and valuable service to our society. They should be paid for it. Companies like Google and Facebook shouldn't be harvesting content for free. Setup a licensing deal with Google, Facebook, and any other meta-news distributors. Newspapers get money, and they continue to provide their services.
They should realize by now that the paradigm has shifted. People are consuming news content in new ways, and the best thing to do is adapt. Music's new distribution is streaming. News should be the same.
If I threw [you] into an M.R.I. machine right now... I can tell you what words you're about to say, what images are in your head. I can tell you what music you're thinking of. That's today, and I'm talking about just shrinking that down
So, it currently takes a huge freakin' MRI to just be able to read the brain's thoughts*. And to the best of my knowledge, no one has figured out a way of inputting a thought into the brain electronically. And she thinks she can accomplish both with a device the size of a cap in eight years? Good luck with that.
* Even "Reading the brain's thoughts" is quite a stretch from what an MRI actually does. We just see on a screen what parts of the brain light up like a Christmas tree, then interpret what the brain is doing based on our current mapping of brain-functions. But, if you were to "think" the message, "Please buy diapers on your way home from work today," an MRI today at best will show that your prefrontal cortex lights up, indicating you are task-managing, as well as your amygdala, indicating a sense of emotional frustration. Other areas will light up as well, but whether these areas mean diapers, work, cheese, rutabagas, or who knows what is still anybody's guess.
William Shockley and the Traitorous Eight, that's what happened.
The article alludes to this: William Shockley, one of those brilliant Nobel laureates who invented the transistor, moved to California to open his lab in Mountain View, the current home of Google. His employees also left to found their own companies.
In a nutshell, Silicon Valley gave birth to this innovation, because New Jersey and Bell Labs demanded loyalty to the company. If the company didn't agree with your ideas, then they wanted those ideas tossed into the garbage can so that you had time to work on their ideas. Shockley thought his ideas were better, so he went out to California to develop them (where New Jersey's anti-competitive laws didn't apply), and brought the Traitorous Eight with him. And then the Traitorous Eight left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor. And so on...
I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.
Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?
Comment to submitter... next time, please find an article that provides a much better summary without all the gratuitous clickbait links, please. Like this one, or this one.
Anyways, in short, the doc makes an OAuth request for access to the user's e-mail and contacts. And since every user blindly accepts permissions such as these whenever they add an app to their phone, we had a lot of users at our district click "Accept".
Mod points to anyone who can parse the source code and summarize what it does, besides mass-email everyone in the contact list a copy of itself.
When you've worn them out, you can toss them right back into the ocean!
Because it's not pollution when you're returning it back to its source, right?
Just don't throw them away in a landfill.
Installing fiber isn't that expensive. I live in a semi-rural area several miles outside of the nearest small town, and 25 miles from the nearest big town, ~50 miles from a city, and ~100 miles from a major metro area. And I have three fiber pedestals near my house, from two different cable companies.
Nice anecdote. By the way, have you ever trenched fiber for a local telecom? It's not cheap. Two minutes of Google searching gave me this neat data. A couple installs in Florida ran about $10,000 per mile back in 2013. Let's use that as a base cost. Wikipedia then tells me that Google needed 4,000 miles of fiber to setup in San Antonio. So, $40 million dollars, just for one city. And if there already was one or two other providers there offering services, able to price-cut their services to maintain their subscriber base, that would give me even less reason to start breaking ground.
I've spoken with two different telecoms about their fiber install over the last five years. Both of them say that there's a substantial initial investment, just to develop a core community of subscribers, which then provides the profits necessary to branch out into neighboring territories, especially in rural areas. (Both teleco's said that rural areas don't turn a profit. The urban areas subsidize the costs.)
No, it is expensive.
Decades of saltwater intrusion, subsidence and rising sea levels
No, that's not why the delta's disappearing. Here are the reasons why:
1) Levees and flood protections prevent silt from the Mississippi from depositing into the delta to maintain it, and
2) Oil drilling required dredging up the delta to permit pipelines and shipping lanes, destroying wetlands that help capture and build-up the silt.
As a technology director for a public K-12 school, I'm very concerned about what I'm reading in the headline. But the "article" is an extremely biased report, citing just as equally biased an article, and neither article really gives me a clue as to what's going on here.
So, let's start at the source: Here is the actual FCC draft order specific to this change. Now, in the course of working on and completing E-Rate filings with the USAC to receive reimbursement for internet and network services for our school district, I've read a few 60-70 page FCC reports before. They're not fun, but they're necessary. That being said, I'm about 20 pages in, and already I'm disturbed. Here's why:
FCC reports that I've read in the past are boring, dry reads, but at least they're factual and unbiased. Not so with this one. Three sentences in, and we get this: "The FCC has historically subjected the provision of business data services by incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to price regulations." And the spin continues..."eases the regulatory burdens"; "spur entry, innovation and competition in the vibrant business data services market"; "competition is robust and vigorous in the markets." And this is still just the first page. The draft order is littered with biased political spin, something that has not been present in my reading of previous FCC draft orders. Because of this, I can't even depend on a government document to give me an unbiased report of the rationale behind the decision, nor can I depend on it to help me determine what the consequences of the decision will be. So, I'll have to create my own... here goes.
Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) price regulations have been there historically specifically to protect subscribers from LECs that had monopoly or near-monopoly controls over their service regions. Most regions throughout the United States historically were not served by competitive broadband providers. Recently, this has begun to change, where some communities now have competitive service providers come in, giving subscribers a choice. The FCC began to look into this issue back in 2012, before Trump. According to the report, "In December 2012, the Commission released the Data Collection Order FNPRM, to collect data, analyze how competition, “whether actual or potential, affects prices, controlling for all other factors that affect prices,” and “determine what barriers inhibit investment and delay competition, including regulatory barriers." By not controlling pricing, the FCC claims in its report that LECs will no longer be limited entry into a potential market, where capped rates would not allow for a sufficient recovery of the investment necessary to build into a new market area.
But, here's the flaw in their reasoning: trenching fiber costs a lot of money. A lot. If service provider A already has fiber, service provider B is not going to install fiber if it does not believe that it can earn back their investment in a reasonable amount of time. Even if prices are artificially inflated by provider A, just because they can, if provider B tries to compete and trenches their own fiber network, both A and B know that A can lower its rates to a competitive level to drive out provider B. So, B has no incentive to trench, leaving A with the monopoly.
The easiest solution: make internet a utility. It's silly to think that it's a smart idea to run multiple fiber lines to a building. (I should know; our school has two of them, and both are dark.) It would be just as silly to have multiple electric taps, or multiple water pipes. But, that's not happening anytime
I don't own an NES classic, but I grew up playing these games, and I love them dearly. Playing them periodically is a joy, both for myself and my young son. Shall I...
A) Enjoy my favorite NES games illegally on a PC emulator?
or
B) Enjoy my favorite NES games legally on an NES Classic Edition?
I look forward to your reply. Thank you.
When I was in college between '99 and '03, the "jocks dorm" as it was called (next to the football field, kitty-corner from the athletic center, and never a morning without empty bottles in the dumpster) got its cable shut off by the police back in 2001. The local cable company knew there were more watchers than subscribers, and with the cooperation of the college, went room-to-room to see how many illegal splices there were. For what I believe was 112 rooms with cable, only 8 had paid subscriptions.
And now 34% have paid subscriptions to Netflix? They should consider themselves lucky.
How much after the first year, Axon? It's a good strategy...offer the cameras for free, then making departments dependent on Evidence.com for cloud storage. (Because what business would give away cameras for free that could work with alternative cloud services, or local department servers?)
That makes as much sense as departments agreeing with GM to get free Impala cruisers up front, but also agreeing to buy all gasoline from Chevy at $10 / gallon.
When I first started to buy SSD's for my school, I tried to do some research and quickly became confused about the differences between TLC, MLC, and SLC. I found various sites like this one that gave a good overview, but I didn't find very many that really analyzed the performance differences.
I settled on the Kingston V300 series of disks, an MLC unit that seemed to get decent reviews. It's been treating us well, but I always wonder whether the MLC was worth the extra money over the UV400, a slightly cheaper TLC variant.
Has anyone ever used both MLC and TLC drives and care to comment about whether the differences in performance justify the cost?